In overviewing self-organizing among such informal economy workers as waste pickers, domestic workers and construction workers, this report finds the lines are increasingly blurred between jobs in the formal and informal economies. This Solidarity Center report is...
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Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Case Studies from India, Georgia, Brazil, Liberia and Uruguay (WIEGO, 2013)
This report details a set of case studies on collective bargaining by informal workers in four different countries: Waste pickers in Minas Gerais state in Brazil, beedi workers in India, Georgia minibus taxi workers and street vendors in Monrovia, Liberia. The study...
Home-based Workers in the Export Garment Sector in Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study in Dhaka City (Wiego, 2012)
Workers in the home-based export garment sector remain an invisible segment of the labor market, and this report is first step toward a systematic documentation of this phenomenon, with special emphasis on employment conditions, worker livelihoods and issues affecting...
Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers’ Demands: Lessons from India (WIEGO, 2012)
This report highlights key lessons from a WIEGO pilot project in India examining the nature of the informal economy and the way legal and policy tools can address the concerns of those working in the informal economy. This Solidarity Center report is part of a...
GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY MUST NOT LEAVE WORKERS BEHIND
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Worker Rights Lawyers from Across the Globe Set to Meet
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Labor Leaders, Activists: Women Workers Critical in Driving Inclusive Climate Solutions
Climate change and environmental degradation have exacerbated gender inequality and worsened existing inequities resulting from resource scarcity, conflict and climate-related shocks. Women workers—particularly those in the informal economy—bear significant burdens...
ILAW JOURNAL: ADVANCING THE RIGHTS OF INFORMAL WORKERS
Workers in the informal economy, with assistance from legal advocates, have won protections and respect for their rights at work through a variety of legal strategies, both within and outside of labor law. In the latest issue of the Global Labour Rights Reporter, case...
Experts: Domestic Violence a Societal Hazard for Informal Workers
Informal workers are routinely excluded from economic and political decision-making, and their work is systematically devalued and made invisible. The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified these dynamics and has resulted in skyrocketing rates of domestic violence,...
Nigerian Informal Workers Demand Decent Work!
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Brazil Street Vendors Seek a Future of Decent Work, Respect
Millions of street vendors worldwide lost their livelihoods nearly overnight during the pandemic, unable to sell in open markets during lockdowns or unwilling to risk their health to do so. But street vendors in Brazil, through the National Union of Street Vendors...
Essential Workers Summit: Building a Just Future for All
Workers who risked their health to provide essential services during the pandemic joined with actors, global union leaders and policymakers in a first-of-its-kind worldwide gathering to share their experiences and demand a response that urgently and effectively...
EVENT: Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in the World of Work
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EDT Place: Virtual. Registration is required. On June 25, 2021, International Labor Organization Convention 190 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work, including gender-based...
Domestic Workers Left out in the Cold
Domestic workers—at great risk during the pandemic crisis—are mobilizing to secure rapid relief and protection says the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF). This International Domestic Workers Day, more than 60 million of the world’s estimated 67 million...
‘Hunger or the Virus’: COVID-19 & Informal Workers
Among the world’s most vulnerable workers are those marginalized within their economies and societies, namely the women and labor migrants who predominate in the informal economy, where they perform valuable work in low-wage jobs as janitors, domestic workers,...
Unions Worldwide Celebrate Solidarity Center’s 20th!
Here is a sample of greetings unions around the world sent the Solidarity Center on its 20th Anniversary! Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions Georgian Trade Union Confederation Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions IndustriAll Confederation of...
Social Justice Unionism: Labor Can Make Change
“Informal workers are organizing and they will organize as long as there is injustice and oppression,” says Sue Schurman, distinguished professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. Opening a Solidarity Center book launch and panel...
Book Launch: Informal Workers and Collective Action
As the number of workers in the informal economy increase around the world, the result is that more and more workers are low paid, with few or no social benefits or job security. In the Dominican Republic, where many in the informal economy are Haitian migrants, the...
Celebrate with Solidarity Center November 15, 2017!
In honor of our 20th anniversary, we are hosting a book launch and celebratory evening event Wednesday, November 15. Please join us as we mark a significant milestone in our work to promote worker rights worldwide, recognize our partners and allies, and lay the...
Domestic Workers and Socioeconomic Rights: A South African Case Study (2013)
This report explores the challenges of empowering domestic workers in South Africa through the traditional trade union focus on worker rights, democratic voice and collective action. This Solidarity Center report is part of a multiyear research project, funded by the...